Comments on: 9 Arlo Lane

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:09:05 +0000

…on the other hand, this strip has the best-drawn females this side of Liberty Meadows.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:07:33 +0000

I found Pibgorn so totally incomprehensible that I only read it for a few days–and that was years ago. Thorax is too smug and estoeric for my taste–even if he is some sort of omniscient, time-travelling energy being who condescends to join us humans just long enough to point out our absurdities. We’ve got Jerry Seinfeld for that…

By: James

James — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:28:53 +0000

I enjoy Thorax, but I only came to the strip recently, so I didn’t know it before he moved into the prominence hs has now.

By: Master Flare

Master Flare — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:25:51 +0000

Bill, I’m so glad I can come here and read what people have to say about 9CL. I found this site last year when looking for a 9CL community, just to discuss other weirdness in the strip.

My like of Thorax comes and goes, although from reading Brooke’s LiveJournal it seems that Thorax is just an extension of Brooke’s earlier attempts at cartooning with “Wahoo Terminal.” So at this point Thorax seems like par for the course, or a necessary evil in the strip.

Also going to have to agree with Carl’s on totally losing interest in Pibgorn. Whoops.

By: Schist Happens

Schist Happens — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:04:31 +0000

I love the grandmother because she reminds me so much of one of my own grandmothers. Nana used to drive me up the wall, so I can relate to the character. Of course the only reason I find it humorous is that it’s not happening to me!

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:28:09 +0000

It’s gotta be love ’cause taint her looks.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:24:15 +0000

I also like Thorax. I hate the grandmother, however.

By: Michèle

Michèle — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:04:08 +0000

I’m with you, Craig. I actually like Thorax.

Oh well, to each his own.

By: Powers

Powers — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:00:43 +0000

Thorax was fine when he was strange and eccentric. When he became weird, then absurd, is when 9CL jumped the proverbial shark.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:11:07 +0000

Sometimes I like Thorax a lot. Other times, like in this comic, I don’t at all. I think he’s at his best when commenting on the absurdities of our lives.